DGM 49: Welcome to 2020!

01/12/20 • 10 min

Welcome to the first Develop Great Managers podcast for 2020.

This will be a new and fun year!!

I start by celebrating 2019. We then move into what will be different. Before I get to that, I would like to stop and celebrate 2019. Number one on the list was the launch of this podcast as well as growing subscribers well above the goal of 500 to more than 900!

Thank you!

Now on to 2020.

In order to make the podcasts more valuable, I will move to focus more deeply on the topics that are most important to you. This will give me more time to get into the details.

I will spend one to two months on each topic. During this time, some of the podcasts will be just me, and others will include invited guests. There will continue to be interviews with great managers. These will be interspersed with podcasts on the various topics.

Before getting into the topics that I plan to cover, I discuss why managers are so important. I share information from Google and Gallup.

I then get into what makes a great manager and how the topics will address these.

Thank you again for the great 2019. Here is to an even better 2020!

Welcome to the first Develop Great Managers podcast for 2020.

This will be a new and fun year!!

Thank you!

Now on to 2020.

In order to make the podcasts more valuable, I will move to focus more deeply on the topics that are most important to you. This will give me more time to get into the details.

Before getting into the topics that I plan to cover, I discuss why managers are so important. I share information from Google and Gallup.

I then get into what makes a great manager and how the topics will address these.

Thank you again for the great 2019. Here is to an even better 2020!

Previous Episode

DGM 48: Stanimir Markov's Career Path - How He Got There

In this podcast, I talk to Stanimir Markov, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Runecast, about his career path.

Prior to Runecast, Stanimir worked for IBM where he held a number of roles. He started in Windows Technical Support, expanding into VMware and Citrix, and then becoming the first member of a new team of Virtualization Architects. And prior to IBM, Stanimir was in Technical Support at Aplus.net.

Stanimir is a VCDX, the highest level of certification from VMware. He also has additional certifications from VMware and Citrix. He received his degree in Computer Science from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridiski.

I got to know Stanimir while I was at VMware. I was working on VMware Skyline, a support product that has some overlapping capabilities to Runecast. We met so that I could share what we were doing in the hope that Stanimir could evolve Runecast in a way that complemented rather than competed with Skyline.

These conversations were excellent. I had the opportunity to watch Stanimir continue to drive his company forward, even while VMware was delivering new products at an accelerated rate. All of this demonstrated the skills and leadership that Stanimir has and led me to interview him for the podcast.

I hope you enjoy my interviews with Stanimir!

Next Episode

DGM 50: Goals - Why Do Them?

It is a new year, time to think about goals!

For the goal topic, I break it into four aspects: What; Define; Operationalize; and Reward. In today’s podcast, I will only cover “What.”

I will cover the value of goals, some possible downsides and how to tie goals to vision, mission, and strategy. This is for work. For personal goals, a similar process will be followed.

I hope you enjoy!